Re: Doing a clean install doesn't work as it did before. Tried 8 times, but don't get results I am looking for??

Marco Moock <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:16:43 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Am 10.08.26 um 19:36 schrieb Michael D. Setzer II via users:
> Go a notebook with Windows 11, but windows says it doesn't meet
> new specs for latest 11. i7 4 cores 8 threads 2.9G 256G sda.
> Wiped the 11, and went to do clean install, but do not want btrfs.
> Went thru a number of attempts. Latest one was close but lots of
> steps. Attempt 8.
> Get to the mount point step. Use to be select standard partitions,
> and  it would give a layout and just excepting it was it.
> Now it says to create
> / root
> /boot/efi/efi
> /boot

Unless you use encryption for /, you do not need a separate /boot partition.

> Didn't mention /home  but did that.
> / was about 80G
> boot/efi/efi was .2G
> /boot was 2G
> and /home rest of 256G.
> 
> Install seemed to go OK,
> but found that sda1 was starting at 34 instead of 2048?

Alignment. SSD or HDD?
You can use gdisk in the terminal and see the first/last sector.

> used gparted to move over, but moved it to 4096, so then moved
> back to 2048?

Do that when creating the partition, not after.


-- 
Gruß
Marco

Junk-Mail bitte an [email protected]

-- 
_______________________________________________
users mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new

OpenPGP_signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 665 B)